Machine Learning Job Trends in England

Machine Learning (ML)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Machine Learning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 46 107
Rank change year-on-year -36 +61 +7
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 1,650 2,141 2,298
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.98% 5.41% 2.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 5.84% 2.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,074 555 1,518
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,612 £93,750
90th Percentile £116,750 £132,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.46% +12.14% -1.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Machine Learning falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60,775 36,652 77,733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.04% 92.67% 81.96%
Number of salaries quoted 42,765 20,021 56,403
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,000 £29,288
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Machine Learning relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Machine Learning job vacancy trend in England

Machine Learning
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Machine Learning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Machine Learning

Machine Learning
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in England over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Machine Learning in England

Machine Learning
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Machine Learning within the England region over the 6 months to 17 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +3 789 £85,000 -5.56% 847
South East -69 230 £63,125 -6.48% 523
North of England -84 228 £65,000 +4.00% 457
South West -39 130 £60,000 -11.11% 202
North West -52 130 £70,000 +7.69% 233
East of England +50 119 £72,500 +11.32% 301
Midlands -120 113 £60,000 -2.04% 262
East Midlands -80 66 £52,500 -19.23% 136
Yorkshire -95 58 £70,000 +9.38% 151
West Midlands -99 46 £60,000 +29.73% 125
North East -31 40 £48,000 -7.69% 74
Machine Learning
UK

Machine Learning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 75 (4.55%) Apache Spark
2 59 (3.58%) Jupyter
3 49 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (1.70%) SharePoint
5 14 (0.85%) Apache
6 7 (0.42%) Appian
6 7 (0.42%) SAS
7 5 (0.30%) Confluence
8 3 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.12%) Apache Qpid
9 2 (0.12%) CMS
9 2 (0.12%) IIS
9 2 (0.12%) Luigi
10 1 (0.061%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.061%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.061%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.061%) Kinematics
10 1 (0.061%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.061%) WordPress
Applications
1 67 (4.06%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.18%) Blender
3 3 (0.18%) Maya
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.061%) Fusion 360
5 1 (0.061%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.55%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.12%) Shopify
5 1 (0.061%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.061%) HFM
5 1 (0.061%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.061%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.061%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.061%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.061%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.061%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.061%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 600 (36.36%) Azure
2 525 (31.82%) AWS
3 277 (16.79%) GCP
4 187 (11.33%) Power Platform
5 170 (10.30%) Azure AI
6 129 (7.82%) Snowflake
7 110 (6.67%) Azure Machine Learning
8 105 (6.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 89 (5.39%) SaaS
10 82 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
11 67 (4.06%) dbt
12 65 (3.94%) Azure Data Factory
12 65 (3.94%) GitHub
13 54 (3.27%) Cloud Computing
14 49 (2.97%) GitHub Copilot
15 47 (2.85%) Microsoft 365
16 44 (2.67%) Amazon S3
17 41 (2.48%) Serverless
18 33 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
19 29 (1.76%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 132 (8.00%) Broadband
2 19 (1.15%) Network Security
3 16 (0.97%) Internet
4 14 (0.85%) Firewall
5 8 (0.48%) 5G
5 8 (0.48%) VLAN
6 7 (0.42%) Kerberos
7 6 (0.36%) BGP
7 6 (0.36%) OSPF
7 6 (0.36%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.30%) IPFIX
8 5 (0.30%) SNMP
8 5 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.24%) WAN
10 3 (0.18%) MQTT
11 2 (0.12%) 4G
11 2 (0.12%) Cisco IPT
11 2 (0.12%) VPN
11 2 (0.12%) WireGuard
11 2 (0.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (10.00%) Power BI
2 130 (7.88%) MongoDB
3 114 (6.91%) Azure SQL Database
4 98 (5.94%) Data Warehouse
5 93 (5.64%) SQL Server
6 72 (4.36%) Data Lake
7 65 (3.94%) Tableau
8 59 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
9 48 (2.91%) Amazon Redshift
10 47 (2.85%) Metadata
11 43 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
12 42 (2.55%) Looker
13 40 (2.42%) BigQuery
14 39 (2.36%) Big Data
15 35 (2.12%) NoSQL
16 33 (2.00%) Snowflake Schema
17 20 (1.21%) Delta Lake
18 19 (1.15%) Redis
19 18 (1.09%) Pinecone
20 16 (0.97%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 67 (4.06%) MLflow
2 62 (3.76%) Git
3 48 (2.91%) Visual Studio Code
4 16 (0.97%) GitLab
5 14 (0.85%) Jenkins
6 12 (0.73%) JIRA
7 6 (0.36%) Claude Code
8 4 (0.24%) Balsamiq
8 4 (0.24%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.24%) Maven
8 4 (0.24%) Selenium
9 3 (0.18%) Polyspace
9 3 (0.18%) VectorCAST
10 2 (0.12%) Gradle
10 2 (0.12%) JUnit
10 2 (0.12%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.061%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.061%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.061%) JMeter
11 1 (0.061%) LoadRunner
General
1 400 (24.24%) Finance
2 329 (19.94%) Social Skills
3 222 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 103 (6.24%) Retail
6 91 (5.52%) Manufacturing
7 79 (4.79%) Banking
8 56 (3.39%) Marketing
9 49 (2.97%) Law
10 44 (2.67%) Games
11 43 (2.61%) Financial Institution
11 43 (2.61%) Public Sector
12 34 (2.06%) Advertising
13 29 (1.76%) Legal
14 25 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
15 19 (1.15%) Telecoms
16 18 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
17 17 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
18 13 (0.79%) Publishing
19 12 (0.73%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 318 (19.27%) Senior
2 237 (14.36%) Developer
3 212 (12.85%) Data Scientist
4 183 (11.09%) Lead
5 160 (9.70%) Architect
6 157 (9.52%) Data Engineer
7 121 (7.33%) Software Engineer
8 105 (6.36%) Senior Data Scientist
9 103 (6.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 93 (5.64%) .NET Developer
11 65 (3.94%) Data Architect
12 57 (3.45%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 54 (3.27%) Consultant
14 51 (3.09%) Python Engineer
15 50 (3.03%) Analyst
16 49 (2.97%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
16 49 (2.97%) Programmer
17 47 (2.85%) Systems Engineer
18 46 (2.79%) Engineering Manager
19 45 (2.73%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (10.67%) PyTorch
2 149 (9.03%) .NET
3 147 (8.91%) TensorFlow
4 125 (7.58%) scikit-learn
5 105 (6.36%) LangChain
6 102 (6.18%) .NET Core
7 100 (6.06%) CSS
8 94 (5.70%) Hugging Face
8 94 (5.70%) React
9 92 (5.58%) HTML
10 88 (5.33%) ASP.NET
10 88 (5.33%) RESTful
11 87 (5.27%) ASP.NET Core
11 87 (5.27%) ML.NET
12 83 (5.03%) Pandas
13 75 (4.55%) NumPy
14 66 (4.00%) Kafka
15 62 (3.76%) Blazor
16 57 (3.45%) Streamlit
17 56 (3.39%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 171 (10.36%) Cloud Native
2 146 (8.85%) Algorithms
3 126 (7.64%) Distributed Systems
4 102 (6.18%) Video\Live Streaming
5 83 (5.03%) AI Agents
6 59 (3.58%) Product Ownership
7 54 (3.27%) Over-the-Top Content
8 52 (3.15%) Low-Code
9 37 (2.24%) Life Science
10 34 (2.06%) Clustering
10 34 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
10 34 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
10 34 (2.06%) Public Cloud
11 33 (2.00%) Data Structures
12 27 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
13 22 (1.33%) Social Media
14 21 (1.27%) e-Learning
14 21 (1.27%) Robotics
15 19 (1.15%) Mobile App
16 17 (1.03%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 36 (2.18%) Linux
2 17 (1.03%) Android
3 8 (0.48%) Ubuntu
3 8 (0.48%) Windows
4 5 (0.30%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.18%) Robot Operating System
6 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.12%) Unix
7 1 (0.061%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.061%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.061%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,322 (80.12%) AI
2 525 (31.82%) Data Science
3 461 (27.94%) Analytics
4 400 (24.24%) CI/CD
5 340 (20.61%) Agile
6 322 (19.52%) Software Engineering
7 312 (18.91%) LLM
8 298 (18.06%) Roadmaps
9 297 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
10 282 (17.09%) Data Engineering
11 270 (16.36%) Generative AI
12 237 (14.36%) Data Modelling
13 226 (13.70%) Data Governance
14 225 (13.64%) DevOps
15 221 (13.39%) Mentoring
16 213 (12.91%) Full-Stack Development
17 207 (12.55%) Data Pipeline
17 207 (12.55%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
18 194 (11.76%) Decision-Making
19 189 (11.45%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 847 (51.33%) Python
2 471 (28.55%) SQL
3 181 (10.97%) C#
4 161 (9.76%) JavaScript
5 93 (5.64%) Go
6 76 (4.61%) TypeScript
7 65 (3.94%) Scala
8 60 (3.64%) Java
9 50 (3.03%) C++
10 46 (2.79%) R
11 35 (2.12%) PowerShell
12 21 (1.27%) Rust
13 19 (1.15%) Bash
14 15 (0.91%) C
15 12 (0.73%) Bicep
16 11 (0.67%) PHP
17 10 (0.61%) Julia
18 9 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 4 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
20 2 (0.12%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 268 (16.24%) Degree
2 128 (7.76%) Security Cleared
3 102 (6.18%) Master's Degree
4 90 (5.45%) PhD
5 76 (4.61%) SC Cleared
6 64 (3.88%) AWS Certification
7 60 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 50 (3.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 46 (2.79%) DV Cleared
10 43 (2.61%) DBS Check
11 22 (1.33%) Azure Certification
12 14 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (0.79%) CISSP
14 9 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (0.42%) ACCA
15 7 (0.42%) CIMA
15 7 (0.42%) GIAC
16 6 (0.36%) CISA
16 6 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
16 6 (0.36%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (8.61%) Data Quality
2 70 (4.24%) GDPR
3 37 (2.24%) QA
4 35 (2.12%) Accessibility
5 26 (1.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 14 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.73%) NIST
8 8 (0.48%) Basel III
8 8 (0.48%) GxP
8 8 (0.48%) SLA
9 7 (0.42%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.36%) GRC
10 6 (0.36%) IFRS
10 6 (0.36%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.24%) IEC 61508
11 4 (0.24%) IFRS 17
11 4 (0.24%) ISO 26262
11 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 4 (0.24%) Solvency II
System Software
1 192 (11.64%) Docker
2 55 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (0.79%) Firmware
4 10 (0.61%) Active Directory
5 9 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.12%) IAG
Systems Management
1 173 (10.48%) Kubernetes
2 101 (6.12%) Terraform
3 16 (0.97%) Grafana
4 15 (0.91%) Kubeflow
4 15 (0.91%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.79%) Ansible
6 6 (0.36%) Nagios
6 6 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.24%) Puppet
8 3 (0.18%) Argo
8 3 (0.18%) Podman
9 2 (0.12%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 2 (0.12%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 2 (0.12%) Istio
9 2 (0.12%) linkerd
9 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.12%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.061%) Functional Safety
10 1 (0.061%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 355 (21.52%) Microsoft
2 209 (12.67%) Databricks
3 86 (5.21%) Google
4 52 (3.15%) OpenAI
5 45 (2.73%) Typelevel
6 28 (1.70%) Dell
7 23 (1.39%) Cloudera
8 21 (1.27%) Adobe
8 21 (1.27%) Salesforce
9 19 (1.15%) Foundry
10 18 (1.09%) Facebook
11 17 (1.03%) Oracle
12 16 (0.97%) SAP
13 12 (0.73%) NVIDIA
14 9 (0.55%) Sage
15 8 (0.48%) Automation Anywhere
15 8 (0.48%) Cisco
15 8 (0.48%) Informatica
15 8 (0.48%) UiPath
16 7 (0.42%) Palantir